Frugal Christmas Cards
Each year after the holidays what do you do with all of the holiday cards you
received? Most of us throw the cards away, some of us keep them in a box stored
somewhere. Instead of throwing the cards out or storing them, you can recycle
them. Just imagine, never buy Christmas or holiday cards again. Now, unless you
have stored all the cards you received from last year, you'll have to wait until
next year to do this.
What you do each year is save your holiday cards. The following year, get them
out and make holiday postcards out of them to mail instead of holiday cards.
It's also a nice time to look at the cards and see who they were from and
remember last year's holiday.
Here's what you'll need to do:
1. Cut off the back part of the card; the part of the card that has the
signature and/or writing on it and throw that part away. You can cut it very
straight by just cutting it right down the crease of the card. Be sure to take
note who sent it to you last year though so you don't send them their card back
as a postcard this year!
2. Write a message on the left side on
the back of the pretty holiday postcard you just made. Write the mailing address
to the right on the back of the card. Put your postcard stamp in the top right
hand corner just as you would a normal postcard.
Tips:
1. Cards that work best are ones that do not have indentations in the
picture part or scene of the card.
2. Scenes that are horizontal look much more like postcards than scenes
that are vertical.
Not only will you save money by not purchasing holiday greeting cards again,
you'll also save on postage. It costs less to mail a postcard than it costs to
mail an envelope. Every year we always have someone ask us which store we buy
our beautiful holiday postcards from and we gladly tell them our secret.
Article by Teri Hanson of
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